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Along with the adult playing companies, groups of boys who were members of church choirs were also organized as playing companies. Of these, the most famous was the Boys of St. Paul's (cathedral). At about 1600, these groups became extremely popular, and played a number of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. Their scripts were often controversial, biting and satirical and they played to smaller, more exclusive and better paying crowds in theatres like the Blackfriars.

Shakespeare makes note of the fad in Hamlet: "There is, sir, an eyrie of children, little eyasses, that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapped for it. These are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages (so they call them) that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills and dare scarce come thither."

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